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salt and red pepper. When chicks eat mash freely alternate hard and soft foods. Third 
week and after,— first feed in morning, hard grain; next chopped raw potatoes followed 
by a little cut cabbage or onions. Atgandi11A.M.,1and3 P.M., mash. At5P.M., 
cracked corn. Finish off at six to eight weeks by adding cotton seed meal and a little 
treacle to the mash. 
(17). Ration for Broilers.—(Prrssry).— First ten days,— baked cake, 3 qts. corn 
meal, 1 qt. wheat middlings, 1 cup meat meal; mix with water or skim milk, to which 
has been added 4 tablespoons vinegar, 2 teaspoons soda; mashed potato once a day. 
After ten days, take 2 parts corn, 1 part wheat, 1 part oats, ground fine; to.each 10 qts. 
of this mixture 1 qt. bran, 1 pt. middlings, 1 pt. meat meal, one-half cup bone meal; 
mix stiff with warm water ‘two hours before feeding. Fatten on a mixture of 2 parts 
corn, I part wheat, ground together, ground meat added; mix stiff with warm water two 
hours before feeding ; feed three or four times a day. 
(18). Ration for Broilers.— (Howr).— First ten days,—johnnycake, 1 pt. corn 
meal, 1 teacup bran, 1 teaspoon ground meat, 1 raw egg, 1 teaspoon soda, : teacup cold 
water; bake two hours. After ten days,— ground wheat, oats and corn, moistened. 
Oyster shell, bone and charcoal before the chicks in separate dishes. 
(19). Ration for Broilers.— (PETERsoN).— First ten days,— stale bread crumbs 
moistened with milk, alternated with dry bread crumbs at two hour intervals; skim milk 
to drink. After ten days,— ground corn 1 part to ground wheat 2 parts, moistened. 
(20). Ration for Broilers.— (WuitTE).— First week,— plain johnnycake, baked 
without soda. After first week,— mash, equal parts corn meal, bran and middlings, with 
a little meat scraps. (Lessen middlings if chicks become costive; increase middlings if 
chicks show looseness). Scatter a little grain about to induce exercise between feeds. 
Have grit and charcoal constantly by them; if chicks do not voluntarily eat charcoal it is 
mixed in the mash. 
(21). Ration for Chicks.— (HunTER).— First feed,— hard boiled eggs, chopped fine 
1 part, to dry bread crumbs 3 parts. First five or six weeks,— coarse oat meal moistened 
with skim milk alternated at two hour intervals with dry bread crumbs until 4 P. M., 
then feed cracked wheat or corn. Meat twice a week; green food often. From six to 
ten weeks old,— morning, bread crumbs; 10 A. M., oat meal; 1.30 P. M., cracked wheat; 
5 P. M., whole wheat and cracked corn, alternately; vegetables and meat continued as 
before. After ten weeks,— rations as for adult fowls. (See 13). 
(22). Ration for Chicks for Stock Birds.— (BoyveR).— First week,— rolled oats or 
pin head oat meal fed in troughs, alternate with stale bread crumbs, dry; boiled milk to 
drink. After first week — mash, 2 parts bran, 1 part corn meal, (or 2 parts bran, I part 
corn meal, 1 part ground wheat), a handful of meat scraps toa pailof mash. After two 
weeks give also cracked wheat and corn. Keep grit, oyster, shell, and powdered charcoal 
by them. Feed freely green tops; or, if these cannot be had, roast potatoes cut in 
halves. 
(23). Ration for Chicks for Stock Birds.— (Rupp ).— First two weeks,— crumbled 
johnnycake (from waste bread) and granulated oats, dry; green food and powdered 
charcoal constantly before them. After two weeks whole or broken wheat and cracked 
corn added. At three weeks begin to give moist food, stale bread soaked in sweet milk, 
thickened with corn meal,— meal about cne-half of the whole. At four weeks discontinue 
granulated oats. Cracked corn always before the chicks until they are old enough to eat 
whole corn, then whole corn always before them until full grown. 
(24). Ration for Chicks for Stock Birds.— (FEtcu).— First meal,— boiled eggs 
chopped fine, shell and all, with baked corn cake, or excelsior meal cake, crumbled 
